The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-09
TRAIN TALK.
Items of General Information
for the Especial Benefit of
Railway Men.

The Kansas City & Wyandotte
railroad will be completed to Seneca
by December 1.
The Rock Island have contract
ed to deliver $4,000 head of cattle in
Chicago from Caldwell, Kan, by
September l..
The June earnings of the u ion
Pacific road, now just about out,
show a net increase of 100000 COM
pared with the same period last year.
AT the end of the present year
the Santa Fe company will have
$500 miles of road, 5000 miles of
which will be new lines built within
two years. past.
In about nine months the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific company
laid over 500 miles of track in Kan
sas and Nebraska and has nearly
l 900 more under way. 1t is rapid
ly pushing a line to Denver across
the northern part of Kansas and it is
credited with prospecting through
New Mexico and Arizona for a line
to the Pacific coast.
General Agent Aglar. of the
Union Pacific, referring to the recent
reduced rates made by the lines from
st. Louis to st. Paul, announces that
the Union Pacific has issued a joint
through tariff naming through rates
from st. Louis to points in Montana,
Wyoming and Idaho, the same as if
shipments had been made via ST.
Paul.
The Western States Passenger
Association has decided to grant a
rate of one fare for the round trip
from points in Missouri to the Con-
federate reunion, to be held at Mexi-
co, Mo-, September IA to Is. Elk
cursion tickets will be sold September
Is to Is, good to return till Septem-
Der 10. The association includes all
lines in the State but the Frisco and
the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
roads.
j. j. Dickey, superintendent of
telegraph of the Union Pacific COM
pany's lines, has rendered his resigna-
ton, to take effect August 10. Mr..
Dickey leaves the service of the Un-
ion Pacific on account of his promo
ton to a district SUPPLEMENTARY
with the Western Union Company
with headquarters at Omaha. Mr..
Kartio, at present assistant superin-
tendent of telegraph, is promoted to
fill the vacancy.
1t appears that there are 207 new
railroads in progress in the United
States. These lines are spread over
the American Union as follows: New
England, Z; Middle states, SO
Southern states, As; Western states,
80, and Pacific states IS. The extent
of the new lines are: New England,
POP miles Middle states, 688 miles
Southern states, 1892 miles West
ern states, SOFT miles, and Pacific
states, 1888 miles. making an sggre'
gate of 8, 1927 miles.
They tell some amusing stories
of the manner in which Manager Pot
ter, of the Union Pacific, swept the
useless timber out of some of the de.
partments of that corporation. 1t is
said that one chief had forty-one
clerks to help carry on his work, and
that brief investigation convinced
Mr.. Potter that thirty-nine of them
were superAuous. As a consequence
that official is getting along at the
present time with just two subordi-
mates.
Reports come in from various
quarters of the West of unusual dam
age TO property from fires started by
sparks from locomotives. The long
drouth has made bridges, fences
grass and buildings as infammable Al
| finder. Many Western roads, OF
some portions of their lines, are keep
| ing men constantly on the watch, and
converting their gangs of section.ner
into regular fire departments. Th,
danger and damage are said to b.
particularly large in Illinois and In
diana.